Christiaan Nagel Tags Tower Bridge

One of the great things about street art is the fact you never know where to look if you want to find it. The only problem now is not looking suspicious while searching for hidden art, alas we fear not. Christiaan has been on the street art radar for some time now. Opting to attach his large mushrooms on top of buildings, the artist is covering the landscape in multicolored mushrooms. Hang on...getting a flashback 'Coooooooool'

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www.christiaannagel.co.uk

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Distorting Views - Ciler & CZK Show 27-30 September

DISTORTING VIEWS

Mexican street artist Ciler joins forces with London’s
Cityzen Kane for a new exhibition
The Brick Lane Gallery

 

                                                           Ciler

Acclaimed Mexican street artist Ciler joins London’s Cityzen Kane in a collaborative project at the Brick Lane Gallery from 27 – 30 September 2012.

The show, Ciler’s first on UK soil, will seem him and Kane collaborate on a new work to be completed in front of an audience on the exhibition’s opening night.

 CZK

Ciler

                                                                                              
Distorting Views showcases the work of two exciting street artists working in London and Mexico City.  In addition to their collaboration, the exhibition will also contain selected pieces from both artists, which are usually reserved for the streets of their respective home cities. Ciler, best known for creating arresting imagery that changes familiar shapes and pictures with often unsettling results, is a rising star on the international street art scene. Following Distorting Views, he is set to complete a huge work for the façade of one of Mexico City's most important contemporary art museums, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, in November.

Cityzen Kane uses his vivid, otherworldly sculptures to distort the often grey streets of London.  Disrupting the convention that street art is painted on to walls, Kane also uses fabric and glass to create works that play with light and colour.

 Charlotte Ashburner from el Jimador, said: “London and Mexico are home to some of the most exciting new street art right now.  With Distorting Views, we wanted to bring two up and coming artists from both cities to one place and give them the opportunity to work together to showcase the best of their respective styles and cities and create a completely new work.“
  
Distorting Views runs at The Brick Lane Gallery from 27 – 30 September 2012. Open Thurs/Friday 6pm-9pm, Sat/Sun 1pm-6pm

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LSD Magazine Interviews Garfield Hackett (legend)

Overflowing with vibrant energy and radiant positivity, Garfield Hackett, the man behind the living, breathing creative matrix of Cordy House and one of the key driving forces behind the now legendary Mutate Britain has got a new project. And we’re talking some seriously next level evolution both in creative terms and in redefining the underground’s relationship with the wider world. Hardwiring London back into it’s lost consciousness and setting the spark for a dazzling new world of creative possibility, London’s Pleasure Gardens are about to explode into the throbbing heart of the capital. The original Pleasure Gardens were a sublime space where social hierarchy dissolved into the shady walkways of secret serendipity - where rampant hedonism rode free flow expression and Hogarthian downtown flooded through the blue blooded veins of polite society...




Just to take you back a bit – how did Cordy House originally come about 

Well in a nutshell, a friend of mine told me about this space, and having spoken to a few people about the potential it had, we took it over and ended up being there for about 5 years. The initial idea was to just do a little show in the building and things just mushroomed from there. We basically created a home for people to do stuff rather than formulating this cunning long term master plan - we had no idea how things would evolve – whether it would be major or not, but there we were with the opportunity to do something and on that basis – it was simple – let’s give it a go. It really was a case of things connecting up organically and riding their own momentum, and if you want the honest truth, it was a perfect creative hotbed because through no overt planning or specific goal beyond creating this free creative space and seeing how it developed, we got some great people together into one zone. And suddenly you had this flood of collaboration – often between people who never would have collaborated otherwise, and that idea of putting extraordinary people together and seeing what happens is exactly what I love doing.

Did that dynamic of a living, breathing 24 / 7 space create a channel of energy that no conventional gallery or exhibition could ever dream of generating 

Oh yeah...completely. This was people’s lives. People were there day and night, day in, day out and rather than being limited to a show here or a show there, it was a constant, living, breathing show. There was never any sense of a 6 week exhibition that would run its course before we started to pull the next one together in that traditional linear format – from the moment we started to the moment we ended, it was this relentless, shape shifting burst of creative expression. And I say ended, but we’re planning on getting back in there at the end of the year to start doing some more stuff.

So how did you then connect up with Joe Rush and the Mutoids to the point of total collaboration with Mutate Britain 

I’d known of them for years and we’ve totally been in the same circles both directly and indirectly for a long, long time. Don’t forget, I’m an old geezer and from the same generation as Joe so I remember them from the early 80’s and their original projects and parties in West London. But over and above that, I think it was the timing. You know when things just HAPPEN. When things just cross paths at the perfect time and they fuse and roll from there. Well that’s exactly what this was and it totally clicked. I have to thank Spencer Style who was the person that introduced us to Cordy and the person that re-introduced us to Joe, and once we started talking, we just knew that we were completely on the same page, and it all synched beautifully. Our family have the same philosophy as Joe and the Mutoids and you always know when something really special is happening when there’s that sense of having been together for years after 5 minutes. It seemed so – it WAS so natural, and nothing we did from that point onwards felt like work in any way – borderline freaky in one sense but pure connection on every level. I think it was a great way for them to get back into London because after they had done Burning Man, they were looking for a project to do back in the UK, and Cordy House was the perfect marriage for them – the perfect place – the perfect fit.

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Street Artist Stik Creates Art for Rock Stars at Q Awards

When we first met the street artist 'STIK' the shy but productive lad was sleeping rough and officially homeless.  Now our man is creating art for royalty, rock stars and charities.  Recently he was selected to present an exclusive piece of his art (Dancer) to music legends of the industry at the Q Awards...Our lad is even throwing up dodgy hand signs with Mystic Bono...

www.stik.org.uk/

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Claude London's Street Art Photo's 2010 PT.1

Here are some favorites from LSD Magazine photographer Claude London for 2010...

 Isaac Cordal

 Nonose

 Otto Schade

 

 Isaac Cordal

 Cityzen Kane (CZK)

 Stik

 Karl Marx

 Ludo (Natures Revenge)

 Stik

 T.wat

Dale Grimshaw

MORE TO COME

If you'd like one of our lads to tag along with you for fresh shots of your work then please contact us with images of your street work and we'll go from there...

Photos Courtesy of LSD Photographer: Claude London http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudelondon/ 

Street Artist 'Stik' by Claude London

LSD Magazine photographer Claude London has been shooting the likes of Andy Warhol since the sixties. He instantly recognised something special was happening on the streets of London and made it his job to document as much street art as possible. So far the man is doing a sterling job and we often see him out snapping the most recent wall creations. He has been documenting artist Stik's work and probably has more shots of this artist than anyone else including LSD Magazine (and we get out alot). We posted some shots here but for the full list be sure to visit Claude's flickr pages... The URL follows the shots...

FOOTNOTE: We at LSD Magazine are often asked why we always feature Stik in every issue. It's really quite simple Stik is one of the few artists that actually contacts us when going out working. So we're happy to follow him along and snap the fresh images for the magazine. 

If you'd like one of our lads to tag along with you for fresh shots of your work then please contact us with images of your street work and we'll go from there...


Photos Courtesy of LSD Photographer: Claude London http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudelondon/  

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